Major League Baseball Balks at Foul Ball Safety Measures From his perch in the Atlanta Braves infield on May 20, third baseman Chris Johnson heard what sounded to him... Read More
Jury Awards $73 Million in Boston Scientific’s First Mesh Case Loss Boston Scientific Corp. was ordered to pay $73 million to a woman who said a defectively designed vaginal-mesh implant left... Read More
Pilots’ Fatigue Cited in Probe of Fatal UPS Plane Crash Fatigued United Parcel Service Inc. pilots committed multiple errors before their airplane slammed into a hillside last year in Alabama,... Read More
Judge Orders NFL to Release Data, Analyses Used in Concussion Settlement The National Football League must give details on how its $765 million settlement of concussion claims came together by making... Read More
Home Depot Confirms Payment System Was Hacked Home Depot Inc., the largest home- improvement chain, confirmed that hackers infiltrated its computer systems at stores in the U.S.... Read More
U.K. Government Warns on Treatment of BP Over Oil Spill Claims BP Plc got support from the U.K. government in its U.S. court fight over the level of compensation required under... Read More
Economic Losses from August Quake, Weather in U.S. Top $4 Billion: Aon As far as natural perils go, August was mostly about earthquakes, along with a few tropical storms and typhoons around... Read More
J&J Was Warned on Hip Implant Poisoning Risk, Plaintiff’s Lawyer Says Johnson & Johnson knew as early as 2001 the metal-on-metal version of its Pinnacle artificial hips might generate debris that... Read More
BP Gross Negligence Ruling a Warning to Big Oil and Partners A U.S. judge’s watershed ruling means the final cost to BP Plc for the 2010 Gulf oil spill may eclipse... Read More
El Nino Chances Lowered to 60% A U.S. weather forecaster pegged the likelihood of the El Niño weather phenomenon occurring during the Northern Hemisphere autumn and... Read More